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Some of the major developments in cryptography before AES were:
Some of the major developments in cryptography before AES were:
* [[Block_cipher#DES]] from an IBM team that included [[Don Coppersmith]]
* [[Block_cipher#DES|DES]] from an IBM team that included [[Don Coppersmith]]
* [[Linear cryptanalysis]], the first published attack to break DES faster than brute force, from [[Mitsuru Matsui]].
* [[Linear cryptanalysis]], the first published attack to break DES faster than brute force, from [[Mitsuru Matsui]].
* [[Differential cryptanalysis]], discovered by Coppersmith et al, but kept secret at [[NSA]] request. Re-discovered and first published in open literature by [[Eli Biham]] and [[Adi Shamir]].
* [[Differential cryptanalysis]], discovered by Coppersmith et al, but kept secret at [[NSA]] request. Re-discovered and first published in open literature by [[Eli Biham]] and [[Adi Shamir]].

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The AES competition involved many of the world's top cryptographers.

Some of the major developments in cryptography before AES were:

At least two writers have proposed methods of making ciphers provably resistant to linear and differential cryptanalysis, Carlisle Adams in CAST and Serge Vaudenay with his decorrelation theory.

Most of the people mentioned above, and a number of others well-known in the field, participated in the AES process.

Here is a table showing the major players. For many papers, some of the co-authors are omitted to keep it simple; see references in the main article for complete co-author lists.


AES cipherTeam includedAttack papers from
RijndaelRijmen, DaemenFerguson, Schroeppel, Whiting
TwofishSchneier, Kelsey, Whiting, Wagner, Ferguson
SerpentAnderson, Biham, Knudsen
RC6Rivest
MARSCoppersmith
Hasty PuddingSchroeppel
FROGSchneier, Wagner, Ferguson
MagentaSchneier, Biham, Shamir, Ferguson, Knudsen
E2Matsui
DEALKnudsenSchneier, Kelsey
DFCVaudenayKnudsen, Rijmen
CAST-256Adams